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Water testing results are now available online. Customers can review our water testing results throughout the year rather than waiting for the annual water quality report to be mailed. Please contact the Water Department if you have any questions.

The Topsfield Composting Center will open for the season on March 31, 2018. There is a fee to drop-off leaves and yard waste. Residents can go to the Selectmen's Office in Town Hall and purchase a Compost Access Ticket for $10. Each ticket will allow the disposal of up to 2 cubic yards (a standard body pick-up truck) of material per visit. Each visit will require a separate access ticket.

Seasonal stickers can be purchased at Town Hall for $75 per year.

The Compost Center is open and staffed on Saturdays from 9 AM to 1 PM only. No weekday drop-off is permitted unless prior arrangements have been made. Any additional information can be obtained by calling the Highway Department at (978) 887-1542.

The Town appropriated $10.4 million on June 20, 2017 for the construction of a water treatment plant and associated piping. Substaintial completion of the project is expected in January 2019 which will be followed by several weeks of testing. We're planning on using the plant to produce water by the end of February 2019. Progress updates will be posted on a regular basis.

February 2018 Update: The ground floor was poured and work on curbing around the basement tank inlets began.

Water customers will receive a copy of the updated Manganese Drinking Water Advisory notice in the mail shortly. The Water Department instituted an advisory in 2013 due to manganese contamination. Recent tests have indicated on of our sources exceeds the MassDEP limit of 300 micrograms per Liter of manganese.

We conduct hundreds of water quality tests each year. Results are now available on our Water Quality Site which includes information about which water sources are in use. The site has been under development for several years and more functionality will be added as time permits.

Manganese Advisory

The Perkins Row well exceeded MassDEP's limit of 0.3 milligrams per Liter during the summer of 2016. Both water sources are now below State manganese limit. The advisory will remain in place until the treatment plant is built and in operation.

Water Treatment Plant Information

A Special Town Meeting held on June 20, 2017 approved $10.4 million for the construction of a water treatment facility. We expect construction to begin during the summer of 2017 and for the plant to open in the spring of 2019.